Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/5] ALSA: firewire-tascam: add MIDI functionality

On Oct 12 Takashi Sakamoto wrote:

Although TASCAM FireWire series has physical controls, this patchset doesn't support them. I think some facilities are required to enable this functionality:

• handling MIDI messages on virtual MIDI ports by this driver
• handling status and control messages in isochronous packet by this driver

As a side note, AFAIR, RME devices encapsulate status in their isochronous stream too... or was it MOTU?

• parsing the status and control messages by userspace application
• supporting assignment of physical controls to MIDI ports by userspace application
• turn on/off LEDs on device by userspace application

These work are apparently beyond my current effort.